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Austin Bag Ban: Building a Foundation for Tyranny

Austin Texas, whose claim to fame is its prolific “weirdness”, has undertaken a new effort to catapult their “weirdness” to new and unimaginable heights. While liberal mayors and governors across the nation have been busy waging war on guns, profit, and families, the liberal Austin City Council has been lamenting their unfortunate location within the red state of Texas, desperately searching for something to ban. Well, they finally found it, grocery bags. As of March 1st, grocery bags, both paper and plastic, are illegal inside the city limits of Austin. What’s equally disturbing is that the city is spending over two million dollars of taxpayer funds training groups of volunteer “citizen observers” to enforce the ordinance, with the hope of creating a bag gestapo. Retailers who do not comply with the ordnance risk paying steep fines.

This issue is easy to make light of, as liberal leaders across the nation are hell bent on banning anything and everything and their thirst for bans is unquenchable. From plastic bags, to guns, to carbon dioxide, to salt and soda- things must be banned! However, it’s really much deeper than that. Certainly we must mock and ridicule such ridiculous regulation, how could we not? But we must also realize that it is this sort of incremental localized regulation that has slowly but surely turned us into an administrative state. Outlandish local ordinances have a nasty habit of turning into widespread social engineering. The federal government uses silly plastic bag bans, such as this example to eventually make the case for federally funding green initiatives. Ludicrous local regulation is the foundation for incorrigible federal fiats. So while we mock Austin’s city council and sympathize with the single mother juggling milk and bread in one hand, and a newborn in the other, we can’t afford to lose sight of the big picture. The administrative state we currently live in is built upon a foundation of bag bans.

Please... so now getting rid of plastic bags is tantamount to akin to tyranny? Perhaps if some of you are confused as to why this so-called "movement" is quickly losing steam, its because of these non-stop ridiculous accusations, all in the same vein of " They're taking away.... OUR FREEDOMS!!" Well guess what? we liberals like freedom too. Secondly, we won the election for a reason and if some of you can't figure out why, then that's too bad.

Where does it say it? In the title where it says:"Austin Bag Ban: Building a Foundation for Tyranny"
You see? Most Americans see right through the overly transparent ploys of such statements. But to drive the point home more clearly, the GOP lost because they have fallen behind and only represent a shrinking part of the demographic. The country is changing and old fashioned McCarthy-era tactics will increasingly fail, even if they are sugar coated in a thinly veiled claim of "protecting our freedoms!!"
We don't need "Our rights" preserved. We've been winning back our rights from the very start and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Where does it suggest this is tyrannical? What it does suggest is how assinine it is, how it is driving bussiness out, how it grabs the authority to penalize bussiness owners for non-compliance, how it is adding millions of dollars in waste to create a bag police. This is laughable, that would be the point. You won an election, this is true and soon you will reap the ramifications to your decision to re-elect a tyrant and enemy to freedom, but thats okay, we are fighting to preserve your rights too.

Texas has been a national leader on justice reform, passing and implementing landmark programs that have led to significant cost-savings for taxpayers, lower crime, and decreased repeat offender rates. Though the Lone Star State has proven that justice reform works, which is why some lawmakers in Congress are trying to replicate these efforts, it has lagged on another related aspect: civil asset forfeiture reform.

WHAT: FreedomWorks and Glenn Beck will host a live, interactive night of action against Common Core in local theaters across the nation. “We Will Not Conform” is not an event- it’s a strategy session. Viewers will act as participants, engaging with education experts to craft a comprehensive plan to defeat Common Core in real-time.

This morning I used Lyft to get to work. My driver conveniently picked me up in a nice, clean, air-conditioned car all the way out in Falls Church, VA (30 minutes away from DC), and he drove me to the Capitol for just $25.

Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry challenged New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to a friendly debate over economic policies. Perry issued the challenge during a trip to the Empire state in which he was to meet business owners, trying to convince them to move their operations to Texas. Cuomo, when given a chance to defend against Perry's statements that business men and women in New York are "taxed too much" and that "the regulatory climate is too onerous," declined. Cuomo simply stated, "I don't think so."

There are but hours left in 2013, which a full two thirds of Americans described as the "worst year ever." Actually, I'm not sure of that exact number, but I was among the ones that did. Thanks, Obamacare! Anyway, lest you think you're leaving all of the bad stuff behind while you're celebrating the end of the year with stuffed lobster, champagne and terrible decisions, the government has already started in on making your life miserable in 2014. And ready or not, as of midnight, here it comes. 1. The Obamacare Insurance Tax

By imposing a minimum amount of insurance coverage, Obamacare limits the freedom of Americans to make their own choices. The government "minimum essential benefits" is denying health insurance to many who would like to have it. That's always the case with government minimums: they hurt those on the bottom the most.

One of the fondest memories of my childhood, growing up in the idyllic countryside of Connecticut, was the crisp air of autumn days, the smell of dried leaves from the maple and walnut trees on our farm, and the crackle of a fire in our woodstove or fireplace warming our colonial era home.

Senator Ted Cruz may be an outcast in Washington DC, and a thorn in the side of the Republican National Committee as well as GOP leadership, but at home he is a hero. This week citizens have been hosting rallies to welcome Senator Cruz back to the Lonestar state to publically applaud and thank him for his courageous stand against Obamacare and big government bureaucrats in both parties.

This weekend FreedomWorks went head first into the belly of the beast at Tribune Fest, held at the University of Texas in Austin. The gathering is similar to Netroots, but on a state level, populated by leftist ideologues irritated at their red state residency, and they are determined to turn Texas blue.